Rahm Emanuel video detailing more about the proposed Civilian National Security Force

[TGO David]

First, the video:

http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=e4qG6UIr8z

Then, the news article from Worldnet Daily.

Emanuel volunteers

Americans to do 'a lot'

'If you're worried about having to do

50 jumping jacks the answer is yes'

Posted: November 13, 2008

1:00 am Eastern

By Bob Unruh

WorldNetDaily

A video of a 2006 interview with now-Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for president-elect Barack Obama reveals plans for mandatory induction for all young adults into a civilian "force."

"If you're worried about, are you going to have to do 50 jumping jacks, the answer is yes," Emanuel told the interviewer, a reporter who was podcasting for the New York Daily News at the time.

WND reported last weekend when the official website for Obama, Change.gov, announced he would "require" all middle school through college students to participate in community service programs.

However, after a flurry of blogs protested children being drafted into Obama's proposed youth corps, officials softened the website's wording.

Originally, under the tab "America Serves," Change.gov read, "President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in under served schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps.

"Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year," the site announced.

WND previously reported on a video of a marching squad of Obama youth and Obama's "civilian national security force," which he said in July would be just as powerful and well-funded as the U.S. military.

Now comes the Emanuel video, which has been embedded here: (see above)

In the interview, Emanuel was questioned whether participants in the proposed force would live in barracks.

"Somewhere between the age of 18 to 25 you will do three months of training. You can do it at some point in your college time," he said. "There can be nothing wrong with all Americans having a joint, similar experience of what we call civil defense training or civil service."

Emanuel said the planned requiring service "will give people a sense of what it means to be an American."

He said, of course, the plan at that point was flexible.

"We propose three months [but] at the end of the day [if] someone says it should be four … I'm not going sit here and hold up [plans]," Emanuel said.

When the reporter questioned the commitment, Emanuel responded, "Guess what. We have a lot more challenges. We are going to need a lot to do it. If you're worried about are you going to have to do 50 jumping jacks the answer is yes."

He chuckled at the reporters concerns.

"Rather than figure out if whether you take a train ride or a barrack. … Think of it this way, it will be a common experience.

"There will be a body of citizens who are ready, capable and trained," he said.

But the plan, especially its demand that Americans participate in a domestic "force," has been raising questions.

The blogger Gateway Pundit called Obama's plan the "creation of his Marxist youth corps," and DBKP commented, "'Choosing' to serve should be approved by parents – not required by the government. No amount of good intentions can sugar-coat words like 'mandatory,' 'compulsory' or 'required.'"

Emanuel uses his book, "The Plan: Big Ideas for America," to specify that he would propose, for all Americans ages 18 to 25, that they "serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service."

Obama, meanwhile, also has yet to clarify what he meant during his July "Call to Service" speech in Colorado Springs in which he insisted the U.S. "cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set" and needs a "civilian national security force."

A video of his comments is here:

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Joseph Farah, founder and editor of WND, used his daily column first to raise the issue and then to elevate it with a call to all reporters to start asking questions about it.

"If we're going to create some kind of national police force as big, powerful and well-funded as our combined U.S. military forces, isn't this rather a big deal?" Farah wrote. "I thought Democrats generally believed the U.S. spent too much on the military. How is it possible their candidate is seeking to create some kind of massive but secret national police force that will be even bigger than the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force put together?

"Is Obama serious about creating some kind of domestic security force bigger and more expensive than that? If not, why did he say it? What did he mean?" Farah wrote.

The Obama campaign has declined to respond to WND questions on the issue.

But Farah's call generated intense Internet discussions.

The Blue Collar Muse blog commented, "The questions are legion and the implications of such an organization are staggering! What would it do? According to the title, it's a civilian force so how would it go about discharging 'national security' issues? What are the Constitutional implications for such a group? How is this to be paid. … The statement was made in the context of youth service. Is this an organization for just the youth or are adults going to participate? How does one get away from the specter of other such 'youth' organizations from Nazi Germany and the former Soviet Union when talking about it?"

[Guest EasilyObsessed]

Maybe they will call them the "Obama Youth"

[Guest Fuel]

Truly scary stuff.

[Guest cstandi1]

Buy your Obama armbands now, they will be uniform soon.

[Guest coldblackwind]

Are...you...kidding...me?

[BrasilNuts]

Please tell me you all clicked on this link... a marching squad of Obama youth ...that's the most disturbing thing I have ever seen.

[Mike.357]

That douchebag Rahmbo is out of control. When BO appoints these types of people to be his inner circle I fear for the future of our country.

this is what I thought of when I saw Brasil's obama video

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[Guest coldblackwind]

Please tell me you all clicked on this link... a marching squad of Obama youth ...that's the most disturbing thing I have ever seen.

Ummm...are they praying to obama?

[Guest sling]

Ummm...are they praying to obama?

It would appear so...

[BrasilNuts]

Ummm...are they praying to obama?

Why not? After all, he is their savior.

Someone tries to take my son to one of these fruitcake camps they will have a fight to the death on their hands.

[creeky]

Ahhh History.... oh how you like to repeat yourself.

[molonlabetn]

History repeats itself... My only wish is to survive long enough to see those who voted for him to feel the consequences of his societal perversions, before I'm locked away in a 'radical conservative re-education camp' or executed by one of these stormtroopers he wants to create (or maybe the term will be sol'djas).

Welcome to the Empire of Change!

[Guest dwrd]

History repeats itself... My only wish is to survive long enough to see those who voted for him to feel the consequences of his societal perversions, before I'm locked away in a 'radical conservative re-education camp' or executed by one of these stormtroopers he wants to create (or maybe the term will be sol'djas).

Welcome to the Empire of Change!

If we are going to be put in a camp, I will bring the marshmallows. This whole situation is down right creepy. I mean, this is pretty much a draft of sorts if this does indeed become required. Let's see how people say they voted for that, drafting their children into required service. That should go over well with the sheeple.

[creeky]

3 months... becomes 4 months.

4 months... 6 months.

6 months... 1 year.

[BrasilNuts]

If we are going to be put in a camp, I will bring the marshmallows. This whole situation is down right creepy. I mean, this is pretty much a draft of sorts if this does indeed become required. Let's see how people say they voted for that, drafting their children into required service. That should go over well with the sheeple.

If they were dumb enough to vote for him in the first place... don't overestimate the sheeple.

[Guest dwrd]

If they were dumb enough to vote for him in the first place... don't overestimate the sheeple.

That is true.

[Guest Astra900]

WOW, that is scary. I suppose white folks can say "The man's got me down" now without being ridiculed for being a wigger or a poser.

[323ssplt]

"Somewhere between the age of 18 to 25 you will do three months of training. You can do it at some point in your college time," he said. "There can be nothing wrong with all Americans having a joint, similar experience of what we call civil defense training or civil service."

Emanuel said the planned requiring service "will give people a sense of what it means to be an American."

This all sounds suspiciously like instilling pride in the Fatherland to me..........HEIL Obama!!!!!!!!!!

[323ssplt]

It just now hit me........my uncle, who served in WWII and fought in Europe and was wonded several times, passed away just days before the election. I guess he saw that everything he had foght for was for naught, and he gave up the ghost to be with the real lord, not Lord Vaiderbama.

[BrasilNuts]

WOW, that is scary. I suppose white folks can say "The man's got me down" now without being ridiculed for being a wigger or a poser.

LMAO...I'm gonna start saying that.

I wonder who they would put in control of their youth corps? Bill Ayers?

Edited November 13, 2008 by BrasilNuts

[jughead]

does this not sound like a standing army. i thought it is prohibited by our constitution.

[Guest coldblackwind]

I have to agree with brasilnuts. They tell me my daughter is going to some obama youth camp (odd that sounds like hitler youth doesn't it?) its gonna be a fight.

[Guest rlrm777]

I'm not feeling the love here tonight.

We must have a way to serve Dear Leader.

[Guest SUNTZU]

What kind of LSD soaked popsicle stick are these crazy effers chewing on?! For those of you with children, I wouldn't even think about sending them. Not only will they be re-education camps for your blood, but now your children will be hostages. Those who think of tin foil hats, grab a history book, it might still be in there.

[Angus]

Well damn, the swastika has been used already. What will they use as their common identifier? Makes me wanna hug my pillow and hope I wake up soon.